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In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare on human needs, the difficulties of authorship, Kierkegaard and post-Enlightenment religion. Presented in a fresh twenty-first century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface, written by Stephen Mulhall, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this influential work is now available for a new generation of readers

Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of his most tried-and-true subjects: Emerson and Wittgenstein. Beginning with an introductory essay that places his own work in a philosophical and historical context, Cavell guides his reader through his thought process when composing and editing his lectures while making larger claims about the influence of institutions on philosophers, and the idea of progress within the discipline of philosophy. In "Declining Decline," Cavell explains how language modifies human existence, looking specifically at the culture of Wittgenstein's writings. He draws on Emerson, Thoreau, and many others to make his case that Wittgenstein can indeed be viewed as a "philosopher of culture." In his final lecture, "Finding as Founding," Cavell writes in response to Emerson's "Experience," and explores the tension between the philosopher and language-that he or she must embrace language as his or her "form of life," while at the same time surpassing its restrictions. He compares finding new ideas to discovering a previously unknown land in an essay that unabashedly celebrates the power and joy of philosophical thought.

Intro -- Contents -- Overture -- 1. Philosophy and the Arrogation of Voice -- 2. Counter-Philosophy and the Pawn of Voice -- The Metaphysical Voice -- Worlds of Philosophical Difference -- Pictures of Destruction -- Derrida's Austin and the Stake of Positivism -- Exclusion of the Theory of Excuses: On the Tragic -- Exclusion of the Theory of the Non-Serious -- Skepticism and the Serious -- Two Pictures of Communication: Assigning -- What (Thing) Is Transmitted? Austin Moves -- Two Pictures of Language in Relation to (the) World -- Three Pictures of My Attachment to My Words: Signing -- 3. Opera and the Lease of Voice -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Subject Index -- Name Index.

PART ONE. Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge. I. Criteria and Judgment. II. Criteria and Skepticism. III. Austin and Examples. IV. What a Thing Is (Called). V. Natural and Conventional. PART TWO. Skepticism and the Existence of the World. VI. The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Opening. VII. Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language. VIII. The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Closing. PART THREE. Knowledge and the Concept of Morality. IX. Knowledge and the Basis of Morality. X. An Absence of Morality. XI. Rules and Reasons. XII. The Autonomy of Morals. PART FOUR. Skeptici